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Sheriff: State Mental Health Cuts Undermine Public Safety
Three-quarters of states cut mental health budgets in each of the past four fiscal years, $4.35 billion in all, while demand rose 10 percent. Gallatin County sheriff Brian Gootkin says psychiatric emergencies are rising and his deputies now handcuff and drive patients up to two hours.
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Health Industries Weigh In On Supreme Court Case
Insurers, hospitals and drug makers that cut deals to shape the Affordable Care Act now take different positions before the Supreme Court. Insurers decline to defend the individual mandate's constitutionality, while hospitals urge the court to uphold the whole law.
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Kaiser Health News First Edition - 03/23/2012
A morning roundup of health policy coverage: the deals insurers, hospitals and drug makers cut over the health law are threatened as the Supreme Court takes it up, a timeline traces the law's regulations, and states have cut mental health budgets by $4.35 billion in four years.
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Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report - Thursday, March 22, 2012
A Kaiser daily digest of global health policy news, led by USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah defending the agency's FY2013 budget request before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen pressed him on aid levels and family planning funding.
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The Individual Mandate: How Sweeping?
CBO projects about 80% of the 272 million non-elderly Americans in 2014 would carry insurance even without the ACA, so they already satisfy the individual mandate. Exemptions cover certain religious groups and tribes, undocumented immigrants, prisoners and very low earners.
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The IPAB: The Center Of A Political Clash Over How To Change Medicare
The House is expected to vote to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a Medicare cost-control panel created by the 2010 health law that is not yet operating. Critics say it would ration care and eclipse Congress; the White House has threatened a veto.
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Two Years In, A Consumer Guide To Health Reform Law
Two years after the 2010 health law passed, most plans already ban lifetime coverage limits and cover adult children. From 2014, most people must carry insurance or pay a penalty starting at $95 a year and rising to $695, or 2.5 percent of income, by 2016.
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Kaiser Health News - 03/22/2012
A Kaiser Health News roundup for March 22, 2012: a consumer guide to the health law at its two-year mark, the political fight over the Medicare board IPAB, Donald Berwick's outlook, and the House GOP budget plan heading to the floor.
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Kaiser Health News - 03/21/2012
A roundup of the morning's health policy coverage: whether New Jersey's insurance reforms show what happens without an individual mandate, how two Miami hospitals are preparing for the Medicaid expansion, and what Rep. Paul Ryan's new budget would do to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Best Hospitals In New Analysis Are Not The Most Renowned
HealthGrades' latest best-hospital list leans heavily on community hospitals and omits Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic and Stanford. The company ranks by Medicare data on outcomes for common procedures rather than reputation, as does a recent Joint Commission list.
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Illustrating Illinois Insurance Coverage Before & After Health Law
Health & Disability Advocates marked the health law's second anniversary with an interactive map using Census survey data to estimate, down to the community level, how many Illinois residents gain coverage in 2014: about 600,000 newly eligible for Medicaid and 776,000 for subsidies.
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The New Jersey Experience: Do Insurance Reforms Unravel Without An Individual Mandate?
As the Supreme Court takes up the Affordable Care Act, the administration argues the insurance reforms cannot survive without the individual mandate — a view insurers share. New Jersey's late-1980s attempt to reform its market without a mandate offers a cautionary precedent.
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Republican 2013 Budget Plan Includes Major Medicare Changes
A roundup of coverage of Paul Ryan's 2013 budget, which would raise Medicare eligibility to 67 by 2034, cap spending growth at GDP plus 0.5 percent, give seniors subsidies for private or traditional coverage from 2023, and block-grant Medicaid to the states.
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Kaiser Health News - 03/20/2012
A morning roundup of health policy coverage: state limits on how the uninsured pay for high-risk preexisting condition plans, the gap between Texas's 25% uninsured rate and Massachusetts's under 2%, and how new medical technology drives up costs.
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How Honest Is Your Doctor?
A Health Affairs survey of nearly 1,900 physicians found a third did not completely agree that serious medical errors should be disclosed, a fifth did not fully agree doctors should never tell a patient something untrue, and 10 percent said they had done so in the past year.
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Feb. Tracking Poll Examines Public’s Views on Medicare, Contraceptives, Health Reform
The February Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found 70% of Americans prefer Medicare's current structure and 25% would back premium support, though solvency arguments can shift opinion. Among women, Democrats were twice as likely as Republicans to back required contraceptive coverage.
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Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Exemption
Mercola urges Vermont residents to oppose S. 199 and H. 527, bills that would end the state's philosophical exemption to vaccination, and describes parents testifying against them, including a couple whose seven-year-old daughter died within 92 hours of a routine flu shot.
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